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3.
Select Maintenance > Set Online State. If the switch is offline, the Set Online State dialog box is
displayed, indicating the status is offline.
4.
Click Set Online. A Warning dialog box is displayed, indicating status is online.
Click OK. The Status table displays Online.
5.
Set the switch offline
When the Edge Switch 2/32 is set offline, all ports are set offline. The switch transmits the offline
sequence (OLS) to attached devices, and the devices cannot log in to the switch. Use these steps to
set the switch offline:
1.
Notify the customer that the switch is going offline.
2.
Open HAFM. The Products View page is displayed.
3.
Select the appropriate switch icon. The Hardware View page for the selected switch is
displayed.
4.
Select Maintenance > Set Online State. If the switch is online, the Set Online State dialog box is
displayed, indicating the status is Online.
5.
Click Set Offline. A Warning dialog box is displayed, indicating the switch will be set offline.
6.
Click OK.
Configure switch identification
Perform this procedure to configure the switch name, description, location, and contact person for
the HAFM application. The information is displayed in multiple dialog boxes throughout the
application. In addition, the Name, Location, and Contact variables configured at the
Configure Identification dialog box correspond respectively to the SNMP variables sysName,
sysLocation, and sysContact. These variables are used by SNMP management workstations
when obtaining data from managed switches.
To configure the switch identification:
1.
At the Hardware View page for the selected switch, select Configure > Identification. The
Configure Identification dialog box is displayed
Figure 18
Configure Identification dialog box
a. Type a switch name of 24 or fewer alphanumeric characters in the Name field. Each switch
should be configured with a unique name.
If the switch is installed on a public LAN, the name should reflect the switch's Ethernet
network DNS host name. For example, if the DNS host name is hpes232.hp.com, enter
hpes232.
b. Click Set Name as Nickname and add a check mark if you want to use the name in the
name field as the nickname for the switch's WWN. The nickname will display instead of the
WWN in Element Manager views.
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Installing and configuring the Edge Switch 2/32
(Figure
18).
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